Heya, I'm glad to be here on this forum! I've been playing Spore for the past 7 years but never realized the extent of the community until recently. I've been having a problem lately that has left the Space Stage unplayable. I enter the space stage, do as much of the first quest as I can, but as soon as I scan that destroyed colony my game crashes. I have reinstalled the game, messed with the graphics settings, and even simply restarting my computer, but no luck. Is anyone familiar with this issue? I have the following installed

- and I am updated to 1.5.1.
Update: A second Reinstall seems to have done the trick. Odd.